Verdict: An ingenious solution for its time, but today it is completely obsolete and functionally a museum piece. 1. What was it? FlashCD was a utility popular in the late 90s (roughly 1997–2000). Its primary purpose was to solve a specific hardware limitation of that era: many motherboards could not boot directly from a CD-ROM, or users wanted to run DOS-based utilities (like BIOS flashers) from a CD without needing a physical floppy disk. Dunkirk Isaidub - 3.79.94.248